Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 346-DDL-016-24
- Employer
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Durham Tees Valley
- Town
- Durham Tees Valley
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Modern Matron - DTV ALD
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a passionate, experienced senior nurse who is looking for experience as a senior leader across Adult Learning Disabilities. We are seeking support in achieving quality and safety across the community teams. You will work closely with the Associate Director of Nursing and other Matrons within the speciality.
Main duties of the job
To improve the lives of people with mental ill health and/or learning disabilities by minimising the impact of their condition, through effective clinical leadership and management of the development and delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing for all service users, including the implementation of standard work for leaders.
Accountable for the delivery of high quality nursing care across the community teams within the designated service area.
Responsible for the senior clinical leadership of nursing teams within the designated area, ensuring development and implementation of evidence based clinical practice within a therapeutic clinical environment, to ensure a recovery focussed, safe and effective service user experience.
Communicates closely with and supports the Associate Director of Nursing to ensure professional nursing and educational issues are addressed.
Accountable for ensuring that the highest professional standards and attitudes towards the care of patients are maintained and delivered at all times in accordance with evidence based practice by all members of the nursing teams. Service Users have a range of mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities, may demonstrate behaviours that challenge and may have difficult family or social situations of relevance which require a skilled response, on which the matron will lead by example and set and maintain standards.
Working for our organisation
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
You are encouraged to have an informal conversation with:
Eve Newbury Associate Director of Nursing [email protected]
Susan Eastick Service Manager [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RNMH / RNLD, current professional registration with NMC
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to master’s level equivalent
- Recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience
- Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
- Evidence of continuous personal development
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in an inpatient or community environment
- Extensive experience working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Extensive experience in a clinical nurse leadership role
- Extensive experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge of principles of nursing and how to apply these in a practice setting
- Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field
- Good understanding of relevant legislation and guidance (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, CPA, Safe Staffing) and its application in practice.
- Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice.
- Good understanding of Recovery principles and application in practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eve Newbury
- Job title
- Associate Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557170301
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